I sinned, I did lighten his load for him." "Well, you can rob and murder again." "That's the very advice Pyotr Stepanovitch gives me, in the very same words, for he's uncommonly mean and hard-hearted about helping a fellow-creature.

And what's more, he hasn't a ha'p'orth of belief in the Heavenly Creator, who made us out of earthly clay; but he says it's all the work of nature even to the last beast.

He doesn't understand either that with our way of life it's impossible for us to get along without friendly assistance.

If you begin to talk to him he looks like a sheep at the water; it makes one wonder.

Would you believe, at Captain Lebyadkin's, out yonder, whom your honour's just been visiting, when he was living at Filipov's, before you came, the door stood open all night long .-- He'd be drunk and sleeping like the dead, and his money dropping out of his pockets all over the floor.